Walter W. Smith
What a family!, Ben Barrett, his webmaster son, Bob Barrett and their extensions. In looking at your latest MAIL CALL containing the hyperlink for ...December 1944 roster , scanned from Clark Archer's best copy, modified for larger readable print and directions to those of us for printing on 8-1/2 x 11. On and on you go into infinity! We 80 year olds with the minimum of computer skills are most grateful to you! Bob was extra helpful to me when I supplied a few missing MAIL CALLS from my file. God bless you.
Walt Smith Hq 1 ---- ---PS I just phoned Capt. Erle Ehly who has been somewhat less inclined to attend reunions lately, but his health seems to be pretty good.

John Alicki
Message from my Marine Veteran nephew.
Good Afternoon John:
This is your 60th Anniversary of Normandy and I along with many others
express our THANKS to all soldiers for a job well done. Gen. Eisenhower
and his Allied Expeditionary Force help defeat Nazi tyranny. You men of
the Airborne prove to be superior over the German war machine. My
thoughts will always remember the soldiers of that Great Generation and
their service to this country.....THANKS AGAIN "Boom boom Alicki" -
517th PIR Team.

Semper Fi
JOHN

Hi Ben (and everyone else)

Thinking of you all on the Anniversary of D-Day.

Thank you so much for what you did for us.

Juliana Stonis
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Since I'm now 31, I was a young kid during the "Cold War" and the biggest memory that I have as a child, in regards to the Cold War, was the fear that my Mom and Dad would be at work and I would be at school when the nukes hit. It was a very real and very scary thought from my childhood. Although it seems small to me now, it was very big then.
Another memory that I have is watching the public announcements from President Reagan on TV. I always felt better after watching them. It was a huge feeling of relief and a feeling that "He was going to protect us from that happening". Now that I'm older, I can look back and see that he really was our protector. Although he was a very caring man and despised nuclear weapons, he also knew that he couldn't flinch one time or back down one inch in the eyes of the Russians. In other words, "he called their bluff" when it came to threats against the US. I feel HONORED to have been alive, although still a kid, while President Reagan served in office, along with, his VP, who ended up being my 3rd favorite president and who ended up being the father of my 2nd favorite president (in my lifetime). I thank God that we had Ronald Reagan as our president at a dangerous time in history, who not only protected us, but was a key figure in ending the cold war.

   "Whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way."
~ Ronald W. Reagan
February 6th, 1911 - June 5th, 2004

   Please say a prayer for the Reagan family today.
   Chris Liddell

Hello all. I am the proud son of Omer Scriver, Detroit Michigan. My dad hesitantly told me stories of his involvement in WWII and the Battle of the Bulge and now that I have lost him at the age of 79 I would like to hear from any of you that remember him and receive any information about my dad that I can.

He was a replacement that arrived in late Dec, 1944. I know he was the gunner on a 30 caliber machine gun and was wounded on Jan. 3rd when a mortarr round landed and wounded himself and most of his buddies.

I have searched these sites for information about the action there and have found some very interesting maps and such. But, I long to talk to someone that knew him and relate some interesting stories about him. Dad didn't talk much about his involvement in the Bulge but what he did provide was a word word description of the movie "Band of Brothers". The cold, "widow makers", urinating in the machine gun action to unfreeze it, etc. Upon his being wounded he was left in his foxhole for dead as the others around him were wounded quite badly also. His assistant gunner was killed immediately. There was a guy from Alabama or Arkansas that ran to his position under heavy open fire and drug my Dad back to cover. The distance was about 150 yards or so. Dad called him every once in a while over the years just to say Hi. I don't know his name but us here in the Scriver family certainly appreciate his heroism. I hope he received the appropriate medal for this act.

Any information about my Dad would really be appreciated. I have found the casualty reports for Jan. 45 and he isn't listed. But, as can be seen by the dates the casualty reports show them starting on Jan. 4th. Certainly there were guys wounded, MIA, KIA during the time Jan. 1 - 3rd that are not listed.

Hoping to hear from someone with information about Omer Scriver. Thank you agian.

Bob Scriver
Designer System
517.887.2520
scriverb@comcast.net

Mark Landreth

Ben;

This message is for Boom Boom Alicki. Sir, I saw, in Mail Call #704, your photo and the notation that you're a WWII Honoree. Like a lot of descendants of 517-ers, I'd like to honor my father's service by having him listed, too. Can you tell me how it was accomplished? In advance, thank you for your assistance.

mark landreth

Fred Beyer

Mr. Rob Browning

I was in the foxhole with Cleo Browning when we got hit, due to losing my arm at the time I, am not sure what happened to him just that I heard that he was killed at time, It could be he was wounded and died later. But some one should know. ( How about you Havill )

As to where he was from, I thought he said Wyo. but that was over sixty years ago, I possibly could be mistaken.

Fred Beyer

Fredtbeyer@aol.com

John Alicki

To Mark Landreth <landmark@hotmail.com> and others who might be interested to list or listed as WWII Honoree:
Go go WWW.WWiimemorial.com. The WELCOME sheet will appear.
On the LEFT hit "wwiiRegistry."
When Registry appears hit" Register an Honoree " and follow rest of instructions.

For those interested to Search for someone hit "Search the Registry"
then enter Last Name, First Name and State/Territory from which the individual entered the Service then hit "SUBMIT." Under Honoree hit the name that appears and Walla the results. Good luck!